To launch our Francophone West African Cinema season, Estrella Sendra Fernandez of Kings College London introduced Ousmane Sembène’s seminal film Black Girl (1966).
Francophone West African Cinema continues with weekly screenings introduced by experts and followed by post-film discussion groups.
Our Mike Leigh in Conversation season continues with a screening of Life Is Sweet (1990). Following the screening, the acclaimed director was joined on stage by friend and collaborator Gary Yershon to discuss the film with the audience.
We chatted to Italian director Mario Martone about his latest feature film, Nostalgia, which stars one of Italy’s most famous working actors, Pierfrancesco Favino, sporting an eerily accurate Arabic accent. We delve together into the film’s esoteric and spiritual dimensions, its gorgeous and loving portrait of Naples and its depictions of the city’s element of criminality.
Watch Mike Leigh discuss his 1988 film High Hopes with Gary Yershon in the second Q&A from last year’s Mike Leigh in Conversation season at The Garden Cinema.
In partnership with Film Africa, and King’s College London and Screen Worlds, featuring expert introductions and post film discussion groups, this major new season at The Garden Cinema invites audiences to experience nine masterpieces arising from postcolonial and contemporary Francophone West Africa.
Tickets are now available to Garden Cinema members with General sales open on Saturday 11 February at 18:00.
Curator, artist and Brighton-resident John Marchant joined us here at the Garden Cinema for a discussion following our screening of Laura Poitras’s All The Beauty And The Bloodshed. The film tells the story of photographer Nan Goldin’s tireless campaign to expose the crimes of the Sackler family and the part they played in the opioid crisis in the US and to kick the Sacklers out of the art spaces they gave money to to whitewash their actions.
John tells us about her artistic process, her resilience, their work together and what the campaigning achieved.
We gathered here at the cinema after our screening of The Shining, as part of our Jack Nicholson season, with Professor Roger Luckhurst who wrote The Shining: BFI Film Classics. Roger shares with us gossip and tales from behind the scenes, tells us about the film’s negative reception at the time and the differences with the novel and gives us some context to understand its place as part of the horror repertoire.
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